Some random stuff tonight. I found myself in Michael’s yesterday with my 40% off coupon on my phone. I’ve been really getting into stamps lately; one of my letter writing friends uses the neatest stamps on her envelopes and I’ve been looking for something to embellish mine. I bought a couple on ebay which have not yet arrived; stay tuned for posts on those. But yesterday I found these at Michael’s:

The smaller stamp on the left is called Typewriter Keys and is by Stampendous. I can’t find a name for the stamp on the right, but it is by Recollections. It was on sale for $7.99 so I couldn’t apply my coupon, but the Typewriter Keys was $16.99 so I got 40% off that. I applied them today to a letter for one of my pen pals.

The front of the letter.

The back of the letter. I really like the way they’ve turned out. I hope my pen pal likes it too!

I also found these decorative boxes at Michael’s, on sale for 40% off. They are by Punch Studio, and I have some beautiful notepaper by them already, so these boxes fit right in with my collection.

This is from the same family as the Reading Journal, only in blue. I saw it online last year at a discount and I had to order it. All I could think was how great the Bleu Pervenche ink would look in it; it’s the perfect match to the blue. I want to start journalling in it right away, but I’ve chosen the Embossed Italian Journal as my Volume 2 for 2014. Sigh. I’m not so happy with the Italian. The paper quality is not fountain pen friendly, which means I’m limited as to which pens I can use in it. And it’s very floppy and hard to write in and doesn’t have a ribbon…sorry I don’t mean to complain. It’s a beautiful journal but the guts of it are just not my preference. I hate to abandon a journal that’s barely been started, especially since it was a gift, but….further bulletins as events warrant.